“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
This was quite a show. It is interesting to hear attitudes change. Political correctness seems on the run and thank all things holy for that.
Get a coffee and sit back. Also, Nick promised he was going to continue this theme on tomorrow’s show so dial in to www.cfra.com for 10:00 EDT Jan 6 and hope the show is as good as this one is, and I have a sneaking suspicion it will be for a few reasons… much better even.
Enjoy
Eeyore
Islamic Group Declares War on Religious Films Written by David E. Miller
Published Wednesday, January 05, 2011
A new ruling reiterates ban on religious character depiction in film and televison
An international Islamic organization has declared war on cinematic depictions of the prophet Muhammad and his companions, arguing they denigrate Islam’s most revered characters.
The Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) Council, a body of the Muslim World League, said in a statement issued Sunday that the images not of the prophet himself but of his companions were creeping into films and television series and prompted the new ruling, which was adopted during the 20th conference of the Council in late December.
“The council reiterates its previous decision banning the production, promotion … and viewing of these films and series,” the statement read. “These [portrayals] may cause the denigration and devaluation of the figures and be used as an excuse to ridicule them.”
The Quran, Islam’s divine book and primary source of law, doesn’t explicitly forbid the depiction of Muhammad or other prophets, which include figures like Abraham, Moses and Jesus from the Jewish and Christian traditions. But some oral traditions, known as hadiths, ban any such visual representation. The main concern cited by jurists was that depicting Muhammad would encourage idolatry.
Based in Mecca, the Muslim World League is one of the largest Islamic NGOs. Its missions include Islamic proselytizing, coordination of Islamic preaching and support of needy Muslims worldwide.
The statement dismissed the argument that the films were a means of educating the public about Islamic figures, saying “the holy scriptures contain sufficient information.”
Film industry officials and observers said the council had nothing to worry about because producers and directors wouldn’t dare test the ban. Mousaad Fouda, president of the Egyptian Film Syndicate, said that work on an excellent film about the life of Jesus was stopped recently in Egypt mid-production, adding that Egyptian audiences preferred action movies and dramas.
“There are no producers in Egypt that would make a film depicting the Prophet or his companions,” Fouda told The Media Line. “They would be too worried that such films will not succeed commercially.”
Sariel Birnbaum, an Arab film researcher at the State University of New York in Binghamton, said the Arab film industry has gradually become more conservative regarding the depiction of Islamic figures.
“In 1951, when religious films were first produced, only the Prophet and his close companions were banned from the screen,” he told The Media Line. “Today, there are hundreds of characters from the dawn of Islam who cannot be shown.”
Among the most common cinematic methods of depicting the prophet are showing the scene through his eyes, or focusing on his enemies in seventh-century Mecca and his Jewish rivals, Birnbaum said.
In a rare instance when Hollywood took on the Muhammad story, American actor Anthony Quinn depicted the prophet’s uncle, Hamza, in the 1976 epic film “The Message” directed by Moustapha Akkad. The presence of the prophet was symbolized in the film by organ music, and his words – unheard – were repeated by other characters.
Birnbaum attributed the growing orthodoxy of Sunni jurists regarding the film industry to a battle being waged on two fronts: one with Christianity and the other with Shiite Islam, both of which encourage artistic depiction of their revered figures.
Offensive caricatures of Muhammad published in Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in 2005 caused widespread protests in the Arab and Muslim world, including the burning of Danish embassies in Syria, Lebanon and Iran. The cartoon continues to inspire Muslim anger. Denmark and Sweden courts last week ordered four people held in custody for allegedly planning a “Mumbai-style” terrorist attack on the newspaper.
“Religious censorship rules supreme,” Birnbaum added. “If an official religious authority bans a film post-production, the investment is lost.”
Joseph Fahim, the arts and culture editor at Daily News Egypt, said the timing of the statement was strange, as religious programming was at an all time low.
“Religious TV dramas have been declining in popularity for six or seven years,” Fahim told The Media Line. “Programs come and go and no one notices them. They are placed in time slots where viewership is minimal.”
Fahim said the only recent Islamic production he was aware of was announced in Qatar at the opening of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in 2009. The epic $150 million, English-language production about the life of Muhammad was meant to bridge cultures, but Fahim said no news about casting or production was released since the initial announcement.
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There is a startling lack of information in this CTV clip. Really quite stunning.
It might be interesting to know:
The demography of the area
what community centre was it?
Have any timing or fuse type devices been found?
Does it appear to have been a shape charge?
So many questions unasked. Its almost like the don’t want us to know. That couldn’t be though. Not in Canada.
Once again, Canada’s media cartel demonstrates it’s commitment to the narrative as opposed to honestly informing the public as to what actually takes place in the world, and reliably informing us as to what real threats we face or dangers exist. Their really is no limit to bandwidth. The CRTC must be un-made as does all the other regulatory bodies for TV and radio. Even CFRA will withhold the name of a suspect if it is Arabic sounding, or withhold a description of a wanted perp if he is black.
This in itself is criminal.
The important French web site, Bivouac, made an important observation. One Florida pastor, a certain Pastor Terry Jones, received massive MSM condemnation from media in the USA and abroad, most notably in the UK, for planning to burn copies of the Koran which were his personal property. He wished to do this as a statement about how Muslims treat Christians and other non Muslims around the world, and demand to build Mosques in the US right where thousands of unsuspecting American civilians were slaughtered at work by Muslims in the name of Islam. Agree with him or not, the media attention he received was not flattering and was copious.
Contrast that with this story:
In the above story, the Christian books were not the property of Al Shabaab. They were forcibly taken (Stolen is not a strong enough term) and burned en masse in the city centre to make a very strong statement about how any religion other than Islam will not be tolerated. Yet the mainstream media is deadly silent. One has to get this from essentially underground Christian press, which seems to be the last bastion of freedom of speech and accurate reporting left on Earth.
It would be truly fascinating to know who is funding these adds.
Iranian state TV, Press TV, covered the counter jihad conference in Paris this weekend and actually got some of it right. The fact is however, the praying in the street has little to nothing to do with “not enough mosque space” and everything to do with establishing the primacy of Islam in France. Many mosques go empty during the Friday ‘prayer’ demonstrations of the power of Islam in France.
The comments on the youtube page for this video came in fast and furious. Some might amuse.
This is interesting.A called to what is probably Canada’s best traditional media, CFRA AM Radio 580 which has Lowell Green for 2 hours a day who is the most vocal and courageous about Islam and unbridled immigration and the consequences to Western Civilization as well as Nick Vandergragt and others, got this call to the John Counsell show Dec. 7th. Fortunately Counsell archives all his shows on the CFRA Web site where I downloaded it and uploaded this one call here. The video portion is pretty much meaningless except for a couple of amusing pics shopped by Tundra Tabloids that are of related matter.
By the time the Beeb notices it, one wonders how bad things really are. In any case, this is quite a good bit by the BBC. I look forward to part II.
The video’s I added, (the BBC show was radio and hence, audio only) are nearly random but a few of them are bang on context and one video is specifically the one referred to by a speaker, when he mentions how hatred of Jewish people is specifically taught as part of Islamic faith, I found and added the video of an Egyptian state TV Imam saying exactly that.
I hope to be able to do part II this week after they broadcast it.
BBC Antisemitism in Europe Pt 1 – Computer from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.
And Holland even more so than Canada, is hard to find the line between government and private media. So when the government seemed to be setting Geert up for assassination as we posted on last year on Vlad, now it is hard to tell if this is a private TV station or if it is a Government smear, and in fact, when it comes to media in Holland, it may be indistinguishable.
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Not before time…
Since 2001, opinion polls have registered a majority against EU membership. Yet, until yesterday, not a single national newspaper, nor any of the parties represented in the House of Commons, took this view: ultimate proof of this blog’s obsessive contention that people are wiser than their leaders.
It depends on precisely how you ask the question but, excluding the don’t knows, some 55 per cent of Britons would vote to leave the EU tomorrow . But their opinion is shared by just 2 per cent of their MPs – less than one per cent if we exclude the Ulster parties.
Today, the first national newspaper added its voice to the chorus. And what a melodic voice. In a front-page editorial, The Daily Express makes the case in largely economic terms, and in internationalist language:
Taking Britain out of the EU should not be seen as a move to “Little Englandism”. On the contrary, ours is a great trading nation with markets all over the world. The time has come to develop our neglected trading links with the new global powerhouses such as China and India.
Quite. We Eurosceptics love Europe: we know its cultures, speak its languages, admire its nations, cheer their patriotisms. We simply recognise that there is a wider world out there: a world that is growing while the EU is shrinking.
I contributed a short article to the Express, pointing out the economic disadvantages of membership. For me, the clinching statistics are those produced by the European Commission itself. Benefits of the single market: €120 billion a year. Cost of EU regulation: €600 billion a year. Go figure.
Fred Litwin of Free Thinking Film Society put on a rather excellent event a couple of weekends ago. His first (hopefully) annual Free Thinking Film Festival in Ottawa.
Vlad Tepes had people on the ground there filming away for us, so expect lots of goodies in the coming weeks.Here is the first 20 minutes of the debate on the ethics and ecology of Canada’s Oil Sands, a fashionable leftist target by people who really just want to destroy ‘capitalism’ as they fantasize it to be. Enjoy. The rest of the debate will appear here in this post as the editing gets done so please save the URL and check back weekly and don’t forget to visit the Free Thinking Film Society web site as they have fantastic events for true rebels about every 6 weeks.
Ezra Levant – Elisabeth May debate Pt. 1 from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.
I will post the relevant bit of the agenda of this site here for context:
The media in Canada, including some radio stations which typically are not of politically correct views, have become so careful in the manner in which they report actual news that it has become understood that if a crime is committed by a black person, the listener will infer it as no description is given of a suspect at large other than gender. If the person is Islamic the listener will infer it as no name is given of a suspect or a person who has been arrested for the crime. In my opinion this does more harm to group relations than if all groups are treated equally. A seething contempt is the usual result of treating a group as if it’s special before the law.
Let me put this more simply. The media has become so afraid of charges from both governments and various activist groups, mostly Islamic ones that they no longer even report actual news.
One of the reasons I decided to go forth with this blog is a fear I have had for a very long time. The fact that since Multiculturalism as an idea was advanced into actual policy, political correctness of the type I list above will result in a newly revived extreme and irrational right wing movement which will gain popular support as governments drift farther and farther from representing the peoples of western nations, their values, and their views. Of course this will be, as historically it always is, a case of the cure bieng worse than the disease.
After searching the net I did find this on another CTV page. On the description,
York Regional Police released the descriptions of three suspects on Monday, asking anyone with information to contact investigators.
The first suspect is described as a male, black, between 28 and 33 years old. He is medium height and has a medium build, and was last seen with long dreadlocks and wearing dark clothing.
The second suspect is described as a 31-year-old black male of medium height, with a thin build. He was last seen with a bandana covering his face and wearing a dark, hooded sweatshirt.
The third suspect is described as a thin male who spoke with a Caribbean accent.